{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5fe36a71f3869269deaf79a5/61cafbad1c48880012d2b95f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":" 0422 – Pausing Practicalities","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5fe36a71f3869269deaf79a5/1640517727663-c9732320b1dc90956152d18c807b99bc.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>2022.02.26 – 0422 – Pausing Practicalities</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Pausing practicalities</strong></p><p>If recording a voice over often it doesn’t matter if you pause for several seconds in the middle of a script. A producer or director will understand that if you have an intense, heavy technical read, or maybe one with subclauses or no punctuation (for example a ‘terms and conditions’ section), then you may have to record several versions starting at different points and leave it to them to edit together. Obviously only do this after a conversation with them and together you can find a good spot at which you can breathe and also make an edit easier for them.</p><p><br></p><p>It will be better for everyone if you stop to take a longer pause at a place where there is a comma or fullstop/period, than to fight through to the end of a sentence and squeeze every last ounce of air from your lungs as you do so.</p><p><br></p><p>Starting at the beginning of the script and seeing how far through you can get before you make a mistake, doesn’t make a lot of sense but uses a lot of time. Just make sure that when, using the stop start method above, you keep in mind the intonation in which you ended the previous sentence before you paused.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Peter Stewart"}